Readings
I - Ex. 34: 4-6, 8-9
II - 2 Cor. 13: 11-14
III - Jn. 3: 16-18
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY (Solemnity)
In the first reading the Lord our God proclaims about himself that he is merciful, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. This proclamation is affirmed in the Gospel passage that God so loved the world that he sent his only Son to save the world and that anyone who believes in him will be saved. God created the world, the Son saved the world and the Holy Spirit sanctifies the world. The Church today solemnises the feast of the Holy Trinity, a mystery and the identity of our God: three persons yet one God, the truth that cannot be comprehended but to be trusted in faith.
God loved the world that he gave His only Son to save the world, Jesus so loved the world that he gave up his life as ransom to save us from sin and death, the Holy Spirit that proceeds from the love of the Father and the Son loves us so much that he accompanies us until we reach our goal ‘the paradise’. Love is the crux and culmination of our Christian religion. The feast invites us to love God and in God to love one another. One of the lesson that we can draw from the celebration of this feast for our Christian living is that the love and unity that exists between the Father, Son and the Spirit should be replicated in our Christian relationships. Our families should be modelled after the unity and love of the triune God. As St. Paul says in the second reading, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all as our mind and heart resonate with the prayer with the prayer: “Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, Amen.”
